Closure for condiment-holders



L. M. ORTIZ AND L. E. REED.

CLOSURE FOR CONDIMENT HOLDERS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17, 192g.

1,354,333, Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

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LUIS M. ORTIZ AND LAURENCE E. REED; OF CHAMA, NEW MEXICO.

CLOSURE FOR CONDIMENT-HOLDERS.

Application filed February 17, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LUIS M. 0mm and LAURENCE E. REED, citizens of the United States, residing at Chama, in the county of Rio Arriba, State of New Mexico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closures for Condiment-Holders; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in condiment holders and particularly to devices for holding salt and pepper.

The principal object of the. invention is to provide a novel and improved closure for a condiment holder of the character mentioned whereby only one of the condiments can be discharged from the holder at a time.

Another object is to provide a novel and improved device of this character wherein arrangement is made to permit the normal discharge of one of the condiments at all times, means being provided for shifting movement to close the discharge of said condiment and permit the other to dis charge, the shi-ftable means being restored to its normal position when released.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the condiment holder having the improved closure thereon.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of'the closure.

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the closure, the shifted position being'shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical transverse sectional view taken on the line 14 of Fig. 3, through the closure and slide.

Referring particularly to theaccompany ing drawing, 10 represents a receptacle which may be formed of glass, metal, or other suitable material, and which has its mouth externally threaded, and is formed with a vertical partition, dividing the interior into two compartments, one bein efOI' salt and the other for pepper, being shown at 11.

Screwed on'the mouth is a flanged cap Specification of Letters Patent.

the partition Patented Sept. 28, 1920. Serial No. 359,329.

12 which may be made from any material desired, and which is arranged to rest on the upper end of the partition 11 when the cap 1s properly engaged on the receptacle. The top wall of the cap is formed with a group of openings 14 for the passage of salt therethrough, and a group of smaller openings 15 for the passage of pepper.

hese openings, when the cap is properly engaged on the receptacle, are disposed over the proper and appropriate compartments.

Plvotally mounted on the lower face of the top wall of the cap is a disk 16 having groups of openings 17 and 18 of the corresponding size and number to the openings 14 and 15. In the inner face of the flange of the cap there are formed two recesses 19 in which are engaged the opposite ends of a bowed spring 20. The intermediate portion of this spring is formed with an inward bend 21 and receives therein the angularly extending lug 22 formed on the adjacent edge of the disk. The spring normally presses against this lug and swings the disk over into such position that its openings 17 register with the openings 14, thus permitting the discharge of salt. Also formed in the flange of the cap is a horizontal slot 23 through which projects the fingerpiece 24 formed on the edge of the disk, and which is grasped by the user of the condiment holder to move the disk toward one side to register the pepper openings thereof with the pepper openings of the cap. When the fingerpiece is released the spring restores the disk to its position at the other end of its pivotal movement with its salt openings in registry with the salt openings of the cap. There is thus produced a novel and improved device wherein the use of a single receptacle is necessary to contain two different condiments. Furthermore, the device is so constructed that the use of the one condiment, such as the salt, is the normal condition of the holder, it being necessary to shift the disk to permit the discharge of pepper from the same. At the time of the use of either of the condiments. the other condiment is prevented from being discharged.

What is claimed is:

A closure for a condiment holder comprising a cap having a plurality of perforations in the top thereof, a transversely slidable and perforated disk pivotally yieldably held in one limit of its pivotal mounted at one side to the cap and havmovement.

ing a handle at its diametrically opposite In testimony whereof, We aflix our signaside movable through the cap, sald disk beh Pre of tw W tnesse 5 ing adapted to cover and uncover the perfo- LUIS M ORTIZ rations of the cap, said disk having an angu- LAURENCE REED larly extending lug on one side, and a bowed spring having its ends anchored in the cap Wltnesses: and having its center notched to receive the RUBY A. ORTIZ,

i0 lug of the cap and whereby said disk is GLENN B. VERMILLION. 

